Don't forget, #AllThingsTech has our own Discord server for those that are looking to hang out and chat outside of Mastodon.
We feel that there are often times that longer, more in-depth conversations are wanted/needed and Discord is a great place to have those conversations.
It's a great place to give us feedback about our server to help make it a better place.
Come join here if you'd like as we'd love to have anyone and everyone!
Je suis tombé sur un truc hier ça m'a fait serrer. Ya un boug sur le serveur discord de Linux Mint qui est considéré par Discord comme membre d'une organisation terroriste en ligne...
Vous avez déjà vu ça ?! Parce que après des recherches sur lui j'ai pas vraiment vu un terroriste prêt à se faire sauter dans un café 'fin bref... je me demande bien à quoi ressemble les critères de discord... #discord#terrorisme#terroriste
Discord is getting scraped by a spy site. China wants Apple to drop all Meta apps from the app store! Twitter's Grok is spreading more fake news.
And next year's phone chips might be thirstier than this year's!
Discord is getting scraped by a spy site. China wants Apple to drop all Meta apps from the app store! Twitter's Grok is spreading more fake news.
And next year's phone chips might be thirstier than this year's!
Am I the only one who thinks #discord is just one giant mess in which almost everything gets lost in the noise. How did we come to this situation where everyone relies on this single, centralized chat service?
@AngryAnt yes, like #rocket.chat or even #irc, but more and more open source projects, including #godot rely on #discord which is not accessible for a very very large part of the human population....
#SocialMedia#SocialNetworks#WebScraping#Discord: "An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users’ messages and activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data for as little as $5. Called Spy Pet, the service’s creator says it scrapes more than ten thousand Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, is also offering the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.
The news is not only a brazen abuse of Discord’s platform, but also highlights that Discord messages may be more susceptible to monitoring than ordinary users assume. Typically, a Discord user’s activity is spread across disparate servers, with no one entity, except Discord itself, able to see what messages someone has sent across the platform more broadly. With Spy Pet, third-parties including stalkers or potentially police can look up specific users and see what messages they’ve posted on various servers at once.
“Have you ever wondered where your friend hangs out on Discord? Tired of basic search tools like Discord.id? Look no further!” Spy Pet’s website reads. It claims to be tracking more than 14,000 servers, 600 million users, and includes a database of more than 3 billion messages." https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/
Es wurden Chats abgegriffen, die öffentlich zugänglich sind, und werden nun kostenpflichtig für die Suche freigegeben. Besondere Angebote gibt es wohl für #LLM Trainings.
Schöne neue Welt.
Btw., das kann mit allen öffentlichen (sozialen) Medien passieren. Auch im #Fediverse.
the irony of a platform concealing so much useful information only for it to be scrapped anyway by some nerds to sell for AI training and other creepy purposes
Fill in the blank with any open source group. Not picking on Mastodon, just using as an example.
Mastodon has used Discord since at least 2018. I found essential tidbits about how featured profiles originated for an article I wrote - that information did not exist anywhere else.
All of that history will be lost if / when they move somewhere else.
I wish there was more use of self-hosted forums, but I get the enticement of real time chat.
If you use Discord, you should consider opting out of their new arbitration clause (if you don't, you basically give up your right to sue, in a sense).
You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs.
A service called Spy Pet is scraping Discord servers, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity, and then selling access to that data.
Spy Pet scrapes more than 10,000 Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, it offers the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.
Spy Pet claims to be tracking more than 14,000 servers, 600 million users, and includes a database of more than 3 billion messages.
@jake4480 This only affects public #Discord servers whose channels are visible to everyone joining (including #SpyPet’s army of #selfbots, which range from blank-avatar accounts created by SpyPet itself to accounts stolen from other users via the usual scams like free Nitro). Private servers with clever #gatekeeping / #verification mechanisms (where the chat channels are hidden from view unless you get manually verified by the moderators) are immune to this message-scraping model.